Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "CharlieBo313"
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All of those streets used to be densely packed with houses, apartments, stores, schools, churches, factories, all the things needed for people to earn a living and have a decent life. Between the tremendous increase of industrial output from the auto factories and two world wars, Detroit had to constantly annex more land and open up new areas for residential and industrial development. The population rose in an almost unbroken line from 993,000 in 1920 to about 1.9 million in 1955. It was a city of wealth almost beyond compare, second only to New York City. Since then, the population has declined an an equally unbroken line to the 670,000 of today. Detroit has all that vacant land because it's a city that was built to hold almost three times more people than it does today.
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Almost all the newer looking abandoned houses were part of North Pointe Village, a project in Highland Park started in 2005 that was going to revitalize the city. There were going to be 153 factory built homes built with government and (supposedly) private money from various agencies and financiers. The project was plagued from the start with corruption, mismanagement, and no one seeming to understand the housing market in HIghland park or Detroit. The houses were poorly built and assembled, were all around 1100 square feet, and were supposed to sell for between $135,000 and $155,000. No houses of that size were going to sell for those prices in Highland Park. The project was financed by a guy named (((Aryeh Schottenstein))). He was on parole for mortgage fraud from federal prison while he was supposed to be financing these new homes. He is a liar and a thief. He was helped along by Fred Durhal, a state representative and feeder at the public trough who has managed to avoid prison while being elected to the state house in 2014 to succeed his father, who had served three terms before him. He received 94.8% of the votes, and this was long after his role in North Pointe was made public. Voters who live in a district and can't recognize mismanagement and thievery are pretty much doomed from the start.
The houses were so poorly constructed that many didn't have back doors, and those that did had the door open onto a three food drop with no stairs. Basements regularly flooded, and the sump pumps were installed in such a way that they pumped the water back into the basement. Windows fell out of the houses, and the substandard aluminum wiring regularly caught on fire. As we can see from your video, not only did they not have garages, they didn't even have driveways that extended beyond the front porch. Art Blackwell, the emergency manager for Highland Park at the time, and since convicted of fraud and mismanagement of city funds, was also part of this criminal conspiracy. Loans were made with no money down to people who couldn't afford the mortgage payments. Despite promises by Blackwell to provide security to the vacant houses waiting to sell, scrappers were breaking into the homes within the first week and stealing everything from the appliances to the plumbing. Those homes rapidly became unsaleable and were boarded up. People who thought they were moving into a nice neighborhood found themselves in area with no streetlights, vacant homes, and an increasing amount of arson fires. Almost everyone who bought a home left within the first year, mostly because the home was going to be foreclosed anyway. It was a disaster almost all the way around, and, except for the few occupied homes, they are all being demolished. Its the same old Detroit story - corrupt Democratic politicians, financial managers that were thieves and couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag, and fraud by criminals way smarter than the those from the state and city who supposed to oversee the project. Detroit and Highland Park will never come back if we can't do better than this.
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Robin John Depends on the definition of "thriving", of course, but the Detroit Riots of 1967 are generally a convenient dividing line. Before the riots, average incomes were still high and there hadn't been any sustained decrease in population numbers. After the riots, the middle class, black and white alike, fled in increasing numbers, and population and incomes began their inexorable declines to the numbers of today. Whites as a percentage of the population in 1967 weren't as high as many people probably think they were, with non-Hispanic whites making up about 55% of the population. Interestingly, blacks as an absolute number of Detroit's population has barely changed since 1967. There were about 660,000 blacks then and about 608,000 blacks today. The difference was many more whites than blacks could afford to leave, so rather than becoming more black, it's really just become less white.
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No, I meant 40 years ago. Detroit still had 1.2 million people, down from its 1950 peak of 1.8 million, but about equidistant from the decline setting starting to set in and the total collapse we see now. Detroit is now at 672,000, almost exactly half of the 1980 population. Detroit (and many other Rust Belt cities) still had a lot of nice neighborhoods, and people could still live decent lives. A lot of people seem to think Detroit was a good place to live only in the far distant past. Like any large city in 1980, Detroit had its problems, but it wasn't bankrupt, wasn't half vacant, and wasn't leading the list of cities with the worst crime rates. Detroit really falling off the cliff started in 1980, not 60, 80, or 100 years ago.
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Hard to imagine that Gary was still a thriving city of 179,000 and 84% non-Hispanic white in 1950. The estimate is Gary was down to 75,000 in 2018 and about 5% of those remaining are non-Hispanic white. Detroit had a population 1,879,000 in 195o with 83.6% of those being non-Hispanic white. By 2018, it was down to 672,000, and the non-Hispanic white population had decreased to about 6%. Back in 2000, Gary had the largest percentage of black residents of any city over 100,000. Since Gary has now fallen considerably below 100,000, Detroit has gained the number one spot. Both cities had massive population declines between 2000 and 2010. Gary lost about 22% of its population then, but Detroit got top honors, with 25% of the population fleeing. Both cities have been vying for the number one spot in fastest population decline and highest murder rate. Both cities have about one-third of all structures vacant and abandoned.
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